It's Lent Time Again

So,

It is Lent time again and I am a celebrator of Lent. I'm not catholic, but I do celebrate the action of giving up something I like for 40 days. This year I am giving up bread. Now lets be clear; I'm talking about the types of breads that require kneading and yeast. This will include things like toast, garlic bread, sandwich bread, hamburger buns, pizza, cinnamon buns and the like for the next 40 days. I'm not including breads which require leavening to occur with the use of baking soda/powder; that would be just crazy (I would be giving up things like cake and cookies, which would not happen). My main motivation for this choice is because of the "evil cinnamon buns" in our Cafeteria. I pretty much have one every day at recess. (Yes! middle and senior school have recess too!) When they don't have them in the Cafeteria I have been know cranky. They are very tastey and they cost about 2$ each. So I'm going to save myself some money for the next 6 weeks and also save on my starch overload. Which I feel is contributing to my increased lethargy of Janurary/February 09.

I'm not going to lie. This will be hard and not just the regular hard like limiting myself to $20 a month at Starbucks hard, but a bonified difficult task that might include some withdrawl symptoms (watch out!). I'm also hoping that this little anti bread Lent will help me plan better and get me back on the not eating out bandwagon. Because we all know I fell off that a few weeks ago.

Anyways,

I will keep you posted on the process of that. Today I ate my last cinnemon bun and had pizza for dinner. I will let you know how it tastes when I get to eat them again near easter.

As for my Goals of 09:

1. Starbucks Card: Still going strong
2. Books thing: This has been great because I get to know the school library better and I get to chat with new interesting people. The addition benifit of taking books out at our school library is that becaue of my teacher status, I have no due dates on books (waa hoo!!!). I am actually reading somethings that I wouldn't normally because I wouldn't buy that particular book. In addition the librarian stated if there was ever something I really wanted she could order it in for me. (SWEET!)
3. Eating out once a week on school nights: Unfortunatly this has been an Epic Fail. I'm hoping the lent thing will help me get back on the wagon because its a little expensive to eat out regularly. I think if I had a magic dish machine (aka dishwasher) and or washed dishes on a more regular basis and or got home before 9pm at night I might be more sucessful.

Wish me luck folk, I'm going to need it.

AD